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Government

Mar. 8, 2013

Inmate population will break pre-realignment levels by 2015, report says

A forthcoming analysis projects that by 2015, the number of inmates in correctional control will be nearly equal to the population before realignment, an outcome the report's co-author calls an expensive "game of musical chairs."


By Hamed Aleaziz


Daily Journal Staff Writer


California's criminal justice system could be in the midst of a "very expensive and painful game of musical chairs," according to a forthcoming analysis of the state's realignment plan.


The report projects that by 2015, the number of individuals in correctional custody will be nearly equal to the inmate population before realignment. The difference, its authors note, will be that th...

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